The privacy agreement consists of a list of "shared principles" drawn from "commonalities" in existing national laws, even though some OECD signatories have limited or no data privacy laws at the national or federal level.
Cybereason recently exposed a multi-year cyber espionage operation carried out by Chinese hackers where they follow their targets moving from country to country by hopping from one breached network to another.
United States Central Command has disclosed that commercially available location data was used to track deployed U.S. military personnel across various theatres of operation.
A new FBI security alert indicates that a group of Iranian hackers are on a spree of compromising the BIG-IP products manufactured by F5 Networks.
TikTok has struggled with an ongoing string of issues involving child privacy. A new one has emerged as a parents group in the Netherlands has filed a $1.7 billion suit against it in Amsterdam.
New DETOUR Act may pass in U.S. to fight against “dark patterns” which makes it illegal for tech companies to design, modify or manipulate user interface to obtain consent or user data.
Thousands of companies using popular NPM libraries have just learned that the hidden price of free software is that the open source developer may withdraw their consent at any time.
The Australia TikTok ban follows the same concerns that have prompted actions by its allies; fears that sensitive personal or classified information will find its way from government devices to ByteDance servers in China.
Smart Devices Adding Security Updates to Combat Vulnerabilities, but EU Consumers Remain Unimpressed
Research finds that a number of manufacturers are not providing security updates for smart devices for nearly as long as their expected life cycles. In addition, manufacturers often do not specify exactly how long they plan to support security updates.
A cybersecurity startup Buguard said hackers used malware to steal passwords for Wiseasy's remote control dashboards to compromise payment terminals worldwide. Hackers could control payment terminals, install and remove apps, access personal information, and make configuration changes using the remote control dashboards.
